Some more background to the Battle of Pinjarra:

H W Bunbury was stationed at the Swan River Colony just after the Battle of Pinjarra. He spent many months exploring the south west and was widely accepted as being a friend of Aboriginal people and worked with them on several of his expeditions. Here's what he wrote in one of his letters home in 1836, two years after the ‘massacre’:

“When he {Thomas Peel) settled at Mandurup, an officer & Detachment were sent for his protection, as the natives shewed themselves very hostile; they murdered not only several of his men but also several soldiers, & actually blockaded two or three of the latter who were left in the Barracks until a stronger Detachment was sent from Head Quarters to their relief. The natives speared Peels horses & cattle & and kept the settlement in constant dread & alarm until the Pinjarrup affair taught them our strength.”

Blaming the White man is all the Aborigines have to cover their lack of progress due to not being as cohesive a society as most of the World's cultures were in that era of exploration.
If they had a real Welcome to Country none of the conflicts would have occurred in the first place. Aboriginal history has been made a huge lie by mostly white academics & now the indigenous have literally nothing believable so far as culture is concerned.
The Aboriginals have been isolated for too long & unfortunately that cost them dearly. However, to try to turn many wrongs into a realistic Right is failing everyone not just them.
I just hope that before long a true Aborigine will find a way to accept history & use the experience of the failures to bring about a better future & it can be done if the White & mixed race Academics can be prevented from further inventing Australian history !

This is part of something I wrote many years ago.
I needed to 'trim' it to fit here.
It is not quite on topic, but still has relevance?
Back then I wrote:

We are all Australians.
We share the same land.
Collectively, we occupy, use, and defend that land.
Defence is not something which can be done by a few individuals.
It is something which can only be done by a (large) group.
Clearly, it is our group which protects and nurtures us.
So we have an innate responsibility to support our group?
For it is our group which provides us with our rights and privileges.
It gives us many benefits we would not otherwise have.
So it favours us to be a united people?

Forget the 'movement at the station' observed by Banjo.
Think about the 'force' produced by the 'many', when we are all going in the same direction.
Truthfully, there can only be one country.
There can only be one flag.
And only one parliamentary system.
There is only one official language we use to communicate.
I am writing with it now.
Our athletes must always represent Australia as a whole, not a separate group.
And whatever any individual might think, I cannot see Australia benefitting from a change to these things at any time soon.

Some of the descendants of those who lived here long long ago seem to have difficulty adjusting to the current culture.
They appear to have a different mind-set?
But adapt and accept they must.
Is someone telling them otherwise?
Is someone leading them away from the truth?
Telling them they are different, and must stay apart?
That their goal is not the common goal?
If so, that is a very irresponsible thing for someone to do.
Older, wiser heads amongst them need to counter that idea?
Those descendants don't live in some separate place.
They live right here amongst us.
And they must accept life as it is, and adapt to it, and adopt the culture as it is.
To do otherwise, is to live a life which is absurdly separate.

Defence is not something which can be done by a few individuals.
Ipso fatso,
yes but losing the country can be done by just a handful of incompetent & traitorous bureaudroids ! (See present fed. Govt)

To Mr 'Poster' and others.
Are all of our parliamentarians "incompetent & traitorous bureaudroids" I wonder?
I think not.
No government can be perfect, but overall I think that ours has positive governance.
We all of us are very fortunate that we live in a relatively peaceful country.
We are all well fed, and have lots of opportunities in life.
I am sure there are many on this world of ours who would willingly change places with us.
Do you want to leave and make way for one of those who would like to come here?
Could you find a friendly, progressive, and peaceful place overseas, which would welcome you?
If so, perhaps we could all move there?
On a side issue, I would better have said before that defence is best done by a large, COHESIVE, group.

We all of us are very fortunate that we live in a relatively peaceful country.
Ipso fatso,
Yes, thanks to the efforts of previous generations of workers & fewer bureaudroids ! My only question is why change a good thing ? It makes no sense !